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and the early part of September. They returned to Peking 

 about the middle of May. 



31. Terpsiphone inch. 



I first saw a bird of this species, a male in the white 

 plumage, on May 21st. Mr. Oates ( f Fauna Brit. India/ 

 Birds, vol. ii. p. 47) considers that T. incii never assumes the 

 white plumage. I was unable to shoot the bird mentioned 

 above, but a few days afterwards T. incii became fairly 

 common ; unfortunately, I only managed to secure specimens 

 in the chestnut plumage, which, however, were all T. incii. 

 It seems unlikely that the first bird was of a different species. 



32. Pratincola maura. 



This Bush-Chat was very common for about ten days at 

 the beginning of May, on some waste land inside the 

 Chinese city. I did not see it afterwards. 



33. RUTICILLA AUROREA. 



I shot a few Redstarts of this species during October, and 

 again early in April. I saw none after about the middle of 

 the latter month. 



-f-34. Cyanecula suecica. 



A very favourite cage-bird. The Chinese bird-catchers 

 caught a great many during the month of May. 



35. Erithacus cyaneus. 



Several specimens of the Siberian Blue Robin were 

 brought to me by the bird-catchers at the end of May. I did 

 not see it wild. 



36. Calliope camtschatkensis. 



Many Ruby-throats were caught during May. They seem 

 to thrive well, for a time at least, on a mixture of finely 

 chopped up raw meat and bean-flour paste ; but a bird that 

 has passed safely through the winter in captivity commands 

 a good price. 



37. Tarsiger cyanurus. 



This was the earliest of the spring migrants at Peking. 

 Many cock birds arrived in the middle of March, the hens 



